Original Table
Dataset contains rows of information for each constituent (e.g. artists, curators, institutions) involved in 1735 exhibitions. This structure means that there are multiple rows for each exhibition.
First 10,000 constituents are in the table below.
Gross Quality Check:Percent of blank values in each column
Number and Size of Exhibitions
Average of 20 unique constituents per exhibition. The smallest exhibition has 1 constitutent and the largest has 338.
Constituents of Exhibitions
There are roughly 32,000 ‘constituents’ in the data. Most broadly, constituents are either of the type, Individuals or Institutions. Roughly 93 percent are individuals.
Each constituent is also assigned a role. 94% have the role of artists. The next most common role, with 4.3% of consitutents, is curator. Others include installer, competiton judge, designer, arranger, and preprer. Another field in the data set specifies the constituent’s role in the press release; this field includes a few more, uncommon options.
The vast majority of constituents are listed in a given exhibition only once. If a constituent is listed in an exhibition more than once, it is usually because he has multiple roles, e.g. Designer and Artist.
Over 60% of artists have only been exhibited once. The top 5% of artists make up 46% of the total number of individual artist exhibitions.
Percentiles: Number of Times Artists have been Exhibited
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 95% 99% 100%
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 5 9 36 234 
Dates of Exhibitions: Only until 1989
The data set contains exhibitions from the MoMA’s opening in 1929 up until 1989. There are an average of 29 exhibitions per year. The year with the fewest exhibitions had 2. The year with the most had 53.
The average duration of an exhibition is 71 days.
Curators
There is someone listed in the role of curator for about 75% of the 1,735 exhibitions in the dataset. For most of these, a role as described in the press release are available in the data set.
There are exhibitions without listed curators in all decades. The plurality are in the 1940s.
